Your Memories ; Times Were Hard in the War Years, As Historian Fred Hughes Finds Out From a Bradwell Pensioner...

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Times were hard in the war years, as historian Fred Hughes finds out from a Bradwell pensioner...

According to the National Census of 1921, there were 1.75 million more women than men in Britain that year. This imbalance was a consequence of men killed in action in the Great War and almost two million more dying in the ensuing years from war injuries. The effect of this social trauma still resonates and Amy Tomkinson, aged 90, of Bradwell, explains what those times were like.

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Your Memories ; Times Were Hard in the War Years, As Historian Fred Hughes Finds Out From a Bradwell Pensioner...

"I was born in June 1918 and lived in Tunstall's old quarter. My dad, Leonard Durber, was discharged in 1916 with terrible shrapnel i...

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